Homemade Star Wars Upright Cabinet

DNuno

Thanks for your reply.
I've just finished my projet :-)
I'm using a real Star Wars flight yoke controller. I had a computer based system for more than 15 years! But this computer eventually broke, and I got this opportunity to replace this old PC set up with a more reliable & modern solution : a raspberry :-)
I was about to order the Alan1 usb controller to hook the orignal yoke, but I had the very good surprise to see my Microsoft Dual Strike USB hack (See here) I've done for PC 15 years ago .... is also recognized by the Retropie 'out of the box' :-)

I however still have one issue to fix... a very strange issue.
Sometime, at the end of the first level, I don't fly to the death star.
The game is not frozen, I mean I can still flight, I can shoot laser, but there's no more enemy... and I can fly endless, without entering to the death star... see ->

This not happen to every game, but quite often. I believe it's because at this time I do not have at this time a power supply enough powerful to correctly feed the raspberry... I've just orderer it now. Or maybe the Pi3b+ is not powerful enough? A very strange issue... Did you got this too?

james.milroy

@dnuno Hi there, well done on completing your project. I'd like to see more pictures of the finished cabinet if thats ok. As for gameplay, I think the 'not flying to the Death Star' you are experiencing is a bug if I recall correctly. It is rectified in newer versions of mame and better reads of the original roms. What emulator are you using? and which roms? I must say I've not experienced this bug myself. I'm using a combination of Advmame 3.9 and lr-mame2003 plus.

DNuno

@james-milroy

Here's a pic of my Star Wars cockpit :

I've switched from lr mame version 0.78 to advance mame 0.94 and it seems that the 'not flying to the death star' bug is solved on this version :-)

james.milroy

@dnuno Nice, I'd have loved to have built a cockpit but sadly, I don't have the room for one, an upright had to suffice.

Clyde

@dnuno Great build! 👍

Nic1169

@james-milroy
Hi there James. Where did you get the artwork for this cabinet? Do you have any files?

Nic

Nic1169

@james-milroy
Do you have the artwork files you could possibly share?

mitu

@Nic1169 Please don't bump your posts on such a short time. Just give it some time for the poster to reply.

james.milroy

@Nic1169, I got representations of the original artwork from another site on the web. The name escapes me at the moment, I'd have to have a trawl to find it again. My cabinet is not full size and is slightly different in places to accommodate the compromises I had to make. My friend resized and reworked the originals to fit my custom cabinet. I got the resulting files printed onto vinyl through a seller on eBay at really competitive prices. I could certainly forward you the links to the original files when I work out/remember where I got them from. The reworked files however aren't mine and in any case would only fit a cabinet built to my dimensions.

james.milroy

I've recently grabbed myself a GRS fight yoke from Amazon US. I am going to swap out my Alan-1 yoke and usb adapter for the GRS and will be upgrading the Pi3b+ to a Pi4. I am still getting audio glitches when destroying the Death Star. Hopefully, I'll be able to get rid of these with the extra power of the Pi4 and a more up to date emulation. I'll post more when I get the swap done.

Jay695

@james-milroy would love to get my hands on a copy of that too.

stevebm1

@james-milroy sorry im extremely late to this thread,firstly congratulations,what an exellent job you did!,I need to replace the old pc in my mamed original star wars cab after it died of old age(it was a pentium 3 set up!),I have a pi3b+ with picade hat and alan 1 usb yoke adapter already set up,I just need a copy of the micro sd card to insert into the pi,would you be kind enough to share an image of the card if possible please.

Thankyou

Steve

mitu

@stevebm1 No requests for games/roms, as per the forum rules. If you want to install RetroPie, you can follow https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/ and go from there.

stevebm1

sorry.I wasn't asking for the game roms,just the already to go set up really,I can add the roms myself

thankyou